“That one can convince one’s opponents with printed reasons, I have not believed since the year 1764. It is not for that purpose that I have taken up my pen, but rather merely to annoy them, and to give strength and courage to those on our side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.”
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799), courtesy of 'Deogolwulf'

Sunday, 18 February 2018

The Sunday Rumble: 18.2.18

'oo7Cob'? For the benefit of my foreign readers, my sub-title refers to the totally unsurprising 'news' that 'back in the day' (the mid '80s) Jeremy Corbyn had several meetings with a Czech intelligence agent who gave him the code name of 'Cob'. Needless to say, 'Jezza' denies vehemently that he passed over any classified information - and I believe him because, of course, back then he was just another scrofulous, communist stooge sitting on the backbenches of the Labour party in parliament. His access to classified information would have been minimal to nil! Tittle-tattle and gossip and boring blather on the superiority of communism over British parliamentary politics would have been his main contribution to those meetings. And, of course, he would not have been the sole member of the Labour party indulging his ego by hobnobbing with communist agents. The fact that it makes him totally unfit to even be considered as a potential prime minister is beyond obvious to anyone with more than three brain cells - so that excludes a large segment of the GBP - the Great British Public!

Not sleeping well? Try the Winter Olympics! It is, of course, a truth universally known, that everyone else's favourite sport is totally boring-snoring to everyone else. However, for sheer and instantaneous narcolepsy, nothing beats watching people sliding down snowy hills! Not, of course, that many of them manage the 'sliding' bit because mostly they fall over. I, of course, am a man who delights in the sight of someone else falling over but when you've seen one, you've seen them all! And if anyone even hints that watching F1 cars go round and round in circles works better than sleeping pills they will be banned!

This about sums it all up: That very naughty boy, Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge, reports that "Hillary Clinton spent 53 times more money per month than Russians seeking to influence the 2016 presidential election" - and she lost! Oh, simply too, too delicious!

Time someone investigated that Mueller fella': One of the most egregious crimes of the 'Obamarama' era was their heavy-fisted assault on the Tea Party Movement. That this crime - I use the word carefully - was perpetrated by the 'Justice' Dept. and the FBI with the keen support of the Internal Revenue Service says everything you need to know concerning Big Government in America. And who was head of the FBI when 'heavies' moved in? I give you Robert Mueller! Read all about it at The American Thinker which has studied the documents finally exposed courtesy of the ever-excellent Judicial Watch. If anyone should be investigated for interfering with an American election it should be Robert Mueller and the despicable Lois Lerner.

Can men have babies? 'Hoonoo'? I ask because that exceedingly handsome pair of homosexuals, Mr. Tom Daley, who is famous for falling in the water, and Mr. Dustin Lance Black, who is not particularly famous for anything, have announced that they are to have a baby. Well, of course, they're not, but some dim-witted woman, who probably needs the money, is! Sometimes there are no words . . .

Way past time to sell off the BBC: There is virtually nothing of merit on the BBC. There was a time when you could trust their news bulletins to be reasonably fair and balanced but that ended years ago. Now, it is increasingly clear that the whole thing is a racket designed to enrich 'the not-very-great and the definitely-no-good', dim-witted 'Lefties' who fester inside its rancid guts.

Now, about all that interference in foreign elections: When the first accusations were made that Russia had interfered in the American election did anyone, anyone at all, raise their eyebrows more than 0.1 of an inch in shock? Didn't think so! Anymore than my eyebrows even twitched at the confession of the former head of the CIA, James Woolsey, that America had constantly interfered in other countries' elections. As Zero Hedge reports from a Fox News interview:

"Have we ever tried to meddle in other countries' elections?"

He responds, surprisingly frankly...

"Oh probably... but it was for the good of the system..."

To which Ingraham follows up...

"We don't do that now though? We don't mess around in other people's elections?"

Prompting this extraordinary sentence from a former CIA chief...

"Well...hhhmmm, numm numm numm numm... only for a very good cause...in the interests of democracy"

So just to clarify - yes, the CIA chief admitted that Democracy-spreading 'Murica meddled in the Democratic elections of other nations "in the interests of democracy."

Well, talk about shocked, I wasn't in the slightest but I do wish they had done the interfering rather better!

(And yeah I'm familiar with the text of the indictment) But anyway, given that Rosenstein guy insisted, "There is no evidence that a single vote was changed" how can we measure those "field operations" success?

You'll have to ask a security expert (maybe yourself) if we can measure the successes of Russian field agents. It doesn't seem realistic they could have had no effect at all. Still, unless proven otherwise Clinton lost primarily because she was a lousy candidate backed by a lousy campaign.

By hoovering up the crumbs of land - a sandbank here, an unclaimed island there - from the otherwise empty table where tyranny has stuffed its face, and leveraging Bitcoin and blockchain where constitutions have started well but withered and failed, might mankind have discovered the last ounce of energy to punch away "the boot, stamping on the face of humanity - forever"?

David, rather OT but I was stunned yesterday whilst watching "When things go horribly wrong in comedy" to see an old RSS member! Her first name was Yvette, I believe she was one of the three sisters in....er...."The Three Sisters" and she had/has a husband who was in "Box and Cox" and that other play which I try very hard to forget.

"The new phase in the Syrian conflict makes the anti-ISIS war look like a stroll in the park,” said Bilal Saab, an expert at the Washington-based Middle East Institute. “This has the potential to turn into a regional war.”

That's her! I was just astounded! I'm not sure that she has turned pro, I suspect she got a bit part from one of the other pros that we had in our midst (I mean, it was hard to distinguish when you were around, ahem cough cough).

Don't forget, there is a part of "Goodnight Sweetheart" which shall ever be mine...or at least my back's.....

Mayfly, you remind me of my one and only appearance on national TV, some time around 1959. I was undergoing parachute training at Abingdon and the BBC turned up to film some of the activities, one of which was to dangle a man from a high tower by wire and then release it so that he hit the ground at roughly the same speed as a parachute descent. I was the man chosen to dangle! Of course, I instantly found a 'phone box (this was 1959, remember!) and rang my Mum to tell her that her son would be on 'the telly' and not to miss it. Alas, when I watched it in barracks the next day, it was a long distance shot so I was about the size of a dead fly on the screen! So all that practising a plucky, clenched half-smile was wasted. Story of my life, really!